NAVSA 2008

The North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA) Annual Meeting 2008
Yale University, New Haven, CT
14-16 November 2008
"The Arts and Culture in Victorian Britain"

Call for Participation

NAVSA 2008 will offer an interdisciplinary examination of the interchange of the arts and cultures of Victorian Britain: high and low, domestic and imperial, metropolitan and regional. The conference will also focus on Yale's nineteenth-century collections and resources in the fine arts, visual and material culture, the book as object, and music and the performing arts. We are pleased to announce that the two plenary speakers at the event will be historian Catherine Hall and art historian Elizabeth Prettejohn.

The Conference Organizers are currently selecting panels and will soon circulate to NAVSA members a Call for Papers asking potential speakers to send papers directly to the particular Panel Chairs (mid-February - 7 April 2008). The Panel Chairs will select 3 to 6 papers and notify the speakers. We encourage panel proposals on broad themes that will appeal to scholars from a variety of disciplines, and we ask the Panel Chairs to play an active role in the development of the papers to ensure the coherence of each panel.

There will also be Open Panels for papers addressing topics not covered by existing panels. If you are interested in proposing such a paper, send your proposal directly to the Conference Organizers by 7 April 2008.

Janice Carlisle and Tim Barringer, Convenors

Yale's website for the conference is: https://webspace.yale.edu/navsa2008/